Zaidan

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zaidan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 63K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 91K
  • SESweden1 in 99K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,178 people

Sources
101 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zaidan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Zaidan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,1781 in 180K1.2K——
US United States3771 in 882K527Zaidan22
ES Spain1171 in 427K117—1
SE Sweden1031 in 99K103—1
AR Argentina781 in 583K78——
NO Norway601 in 91K60—1
UY Uruguay541 in 63K54——
FI Finland241 in 232K39—1

1,178 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zaidan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Uruguay

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Zaidán, Záidán, Zaidān

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Malaysia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Zaidán, Žâidâñ, Zaidān

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Zaïdan, Zäidan, Zaidán

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Zaidān

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Zaidan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Basque, Feminine allocutive form of zait.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

196019701980Abdallah Elias Zaidan, b. 1963Amir Zaidan, b. 1964Wael Zidan, b. 1970Hashim Zaidan, b. 1980

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 38 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Zaidan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#7,952
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020527#44,004
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010377#54,637
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000234#76,465
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—117#24,654
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—117#24,502
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—103#7,025
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—78—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—60#23,229
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—54—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—24#40,808
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Zaidan have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Zaidan, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Zaidan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zaidan is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 63 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zaidan?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,178 people named Zaidan, about 1 in 180 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zaidan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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